Refat Chubarov

Refat Chubarov (22 September 1957-) was the Chairman of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People from 28 October 2013, succeeding Mustafa Dzhemilev.

Biography
Refat Chubarov was born on 22 September 1957 in Samarkand, Uzbek SSR in the Soviet Union to a family of Sunni Muslim Crimean Tatars who were exiled from Crimea during World War II. In 1968, the family resettled in Krasnoperekopsk Raion in northern Crimea, and he attended the Moscow State Historic Archive Institute in 1983 before working as a regional representive of the Riga city council with the Popular Front of Latvia. From 1995 to 1998 he was Deputy Chairman of the Supreme Council of Crimea, and from 1998 to 2007 he was a People's Deputy of Ukraine. After the Crimean Crisis, he called for Crimea's secession from Russia, and he became a member of the Petro Poroshenko Bloc of Ukrainian politics.